Art Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Anais Nin

Perfect love is rare indeed - For to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Leo Buscaglia

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.

Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Sir Arthur Keith

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.

Navajo Chant

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

George Seaton Bowes

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Charles H. Mayo

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

But did thee feel the earth move?

Ernest Hemingway

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

Yoshida Kenko

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

I am a part of all I have seen.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon.

Gerald R. Ford

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...

William Wadsworth